Can the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurch

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dc.contributor.authorDombroski K
dc.contributor.authorDiprose G
dc.contributor.authorBoles I
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-13T22:32:49Z
dc.date.available2020-05-13T22:32:49Z
dc.date.issued2019en
dc.date.updated2020-04-08T22:52:03Z
dc.description.abstractIn recent work on commons and commoning, scholars have argued that we might delink the practice of commoning from property ownership, while paying attention to modes of governance that enable long-term commons to emerge and be sustained. Yet commoning can also occur as a temporary practice, in between and around other forms of use. In this article we reflect on the transitional commoning practices and projects enabled by the Christchurch post-earthquake organisation Life in Vacant Spaces, which emerged to connect and mediate between landowners of vacant inner city demolition sites and temporary creative or entrepreneurial users. While these commons are often framed as transitional or temporary, we argue they have ongoing reverberations changing how people and local government in Christchurch approach common use. Using the cases of the physical space of the Victoria Street site “The Commons” and the virtual space of the Life in Vacant Spaces website, we show how temporary commoning projects can create and sustain the conditions of possibility required for nurturing commoner subjectivities. Thus despite their impermanence, temporary commoning projects provide a useful counter to more dominant forms of urban development and planning premised on property ownership and “permanent” timeframes, in that just as the physical space of the city being opened to commoning possibilities, so too are the expectations and dispositions of the city’s inhabitants, planners, and developers.en
dc.identifier.citationDombroski K, Diprose G, Boles I (2019). Can the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurch. Local Environment. 24(4). 313-328.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480
dc.identifier.issn1354-9839
dc.identifier.issn1469-6711
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/100130
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limiteden
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectCommonsen
dc.subjectcommunity economiesen
dc.subjectsubjectivityen
dc.subjecttransitional spacesen
dc.subjecturban developmenten
dc.subjectCanterbury earthquakesen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::33 - Built environment and design::3304 - Urban and regional planning::330411 - Urban designen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::12 - Built Environment and Design::1205 - Urban and Regional Planning::120501 - Community Planningen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::12 - Built Environment and Design::1205 - Urban and Regional Planning::120507 - Urban Analysis and Developmenten
dc.titleCan the commons be temporary? The role of transitional commoning in post-quake Christchurchen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Science
uc.departmentSchool of Earth and Environment
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